Yokohama miyage: Tokaido meisho no uchi Yokohama fukei [Yokohama Souvenir: Views of Yokohama from the Famous Sites of the Tokaido].

UTAGAWA (Sadahide). & [GOUNTEI] (Sadahide).

A colourful panorama of Yokohama

First edition in book form. Colour woodblock printed throughout. 8vo., measuring 236 by 167mm. Fukuro-toji binding, original embossed blue paper wrappers, printed title slip, rubbing and wear to wrappers, worming to upper margin on three leaves, not affecting printed area, a very good copy. Unpaginated [8]ff. Edo, publisher unknown, Man'en 1 [i.e, 1860.

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UTAGAWA (Sadahide). & [GOUNTEI] (Sadahide).

Yokohama miyage: Tokaido meisho no uchi Yokohama fukei [Yokohama Souvenir: Views of Yokohama from the Famous Sites of the Tokaido].

A late-Edo period panorama of Yokohama by the renowned woodblock printer Utagawa Sadahide (1807–c.1878). The present copy is a particularly vibrant example.

Sadahide studied under Kunisada and was a member of the prestigious Utagawa School. In his lifetime, he experienced the end of the Edo period and beginning of the Meiji period. Sadahide documented this period of great change, showing the influx of Western influence and the different types of people who were mixing for the first time.

The present book is no exception, capturing Yokohama on the brink of change before the Meiji period. Sadahide was particularly known for his depictions of Yokohama, a bustling port city, and in this book we see the landscape of the city and its notable sites. Along the top of the print, the title explains that it is a view of Yokohama from the famous sites of the Tokaido road.

Very rare. Seemingly no copies of this copy on OCLC (the Harvard Yenching lists a copy with a slightly different title). Held more widely in Japanese institutions.

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261194

Yokohama miyage: Tokaido meisho no uchi Yokohama fukei [Yokohama Souvenir: Views of Yokohama from the Famous Sites of the Tokaido].

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